Chronic transplant glomerulopathy: Need for further assessment

Clinical Journal of the American Society of Nephrology

Volumn 2, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1108-1109

  Racusen, Lorraine ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALLOANTIBODY; COMPLEMENT C4D; COMPLEMENT COMPONENT C4B; HLA ANTIGEN; PEPTIDE FRAGMENT; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ALLOTRANSPLANTATION; BLOOD; CHRONIC DISEASE; DONOR; GLOMERULUS; GRAFT REJECTION; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; NOTE; PATHOLOGY;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLEMENT C4B; GRAFT REJECTION; HLA ANTIGENS; HUMANS; ISOANTIBODIES; KIDNEY GLOMERULUS; KIDNEY TRANSPLANTATION; PEPTIDE FRAGMENTS; TISSUE DONORS; TRANSPLANTATION, HOMOLOGOUS;

EID: 38449092833     PISSN: 15559041     EISSN: 1555905X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2215/CJN.03760907     Document Type: Editorial

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